ANOTHER BRIDGE CLOSED
The GOP 6 look smart
The Republican Six who overrode Gov. Tim Pawlenty's veto of the transportation bill look even more forward-thinking today.
The closing of the U.S. Hwy. 43 bridge across the Mississippi River in Winona -- on the heels of closures in St. Cloud and Duluth -- makes it painfully obvious that this state is in serious need of leadership in transportation funding.
Pawlenty's veto was not leadership, and the Republicans who did not join the six share his lack of vision for a safe and efficient transportation grid.
RALPH WYMAN, MINNEAPOLIS
AG'S OFFICE IN TURMOIL
Get some advice
The attorney general will benefit from leadership and managerial coaching. The June 4 editorial is an effective public service. In fact, your advice reminds me of the editorial "coaching" you provided then-Gov. Jesse Ventura several years ago.
Perhaps Attorney General Lori Swanson would benefit from reading several books by the late Peter Drucker.
JAMES H. ANDERL, ST. PAUL
3 BANNED FROM GRADUATION
A blow to free speech
The June 5 Star Tribune story on the three Bloomington Kennedy students banned from their graduation for bringing a Confederate flag to school made me wonder: Would the three students have been suspended if they had been burning the flag? What if they had been burning the American flag?